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Karen Lillis

@bookstorememoir.bsky.social

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Artist. Writer. Bookseller. Pro-democracy. Save the USPS. 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦☂️☂️☂️ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-me-print-my-2nd-pittsburgh-photography-book/x/455079#/

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Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · Dec 2

A lot of folks are talking about abandoning Amazon. Let me be your new bookseller! Shopping small helps our communities & spares us more billionaires. I sell new books & used books. In person & mail order. Vintage books on Etsy & new books in Pittsburgh or via Bookshop: bookshop.org/shop/karensb...

Karen's Book Row Bookshop

Est. 2016. Karen's Book Row features feminist fiction & uncommon reads. I'm a Pittsburgh-based bookseller with a literary past in New York, Paris, and Virginia. I have depth of knowledge in Femini...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone needs to do this right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Pay our troops during the Trump shutdown and ensure federal workers get back pay

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 5h

…because they are lazy thugs who are working to fulfill Stephen Miller racist quotas & private prisons $$$ profits.

Fire Stephen Miller.

Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 5h

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 5h

I would like to know why the assassination attempt on Governor Shapiro is referred to in the press as an “arson attack” while the terrible shooting of non-office holding influencer Charlie Kirk is routinely referred to as an "assassination.” What am I missing?

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve added a new perk at my printing fundraiser:
If you’re in Pittsburgh and you want a copy of my new Pittsburgh photo book, but you also want to save on shipping,
choose the perk ===> Pittsburgh pick up!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/hel...

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tarasworld.bsky.social @tarasworld.bsky.social · 12h

You're not a dictator because Dems are doing everything in our power to stop you! We are organized, we are not panicking, staying engaged, we are shifting our message and broadening our tent, we are showcasing our incredible Mayors and Governors🗽Trump will overplay is hand and we'll be ready!
#pinks

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Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 9h

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Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 9h

“Living is for me, not for thee"

Derick Zoolander @syncopatedemocracy.bsky.social · 10h

Tr*mp got a COVID booster!

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 9h

Read more (while you can!):
osc.gov/Services/Pag...

From a US government website,
U.S. Office of Special Counsel

Hatch Act Overview
The Hatch Act, a federal law passed in 1939, limits certain political activities of federal employees, as well as some state, D.C., and local government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs. The law’s purposes are to ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation.

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 12h

It seems like it might bring in a few customers? 😂 I’ll have to give it a think for my biz

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 12h

This week it’s the EASTON BOOK FESTIVAL, which includes virtual programming. Tonight at 8pm East Coast time, there’s a cool workshop with Darlene P. Campos (The Center of the Easrt) on writing with dual POV: eastonbookfestival.com/event/are-yo...

Are You Talking to Me? Or Are You Talking to Me?: Writing in Dual Points of View – Easton Book Festival

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carelesswhisperer.bsky.social @carelesswhisperer.bsky.social · 13h

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Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 14h

Because Mike Johnson is Satan working for Putin?

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 14h

🧵

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

2/ Democrats aren't going to vote for a budget that throws millions off health care and funds Trump's growing totalitarianism. At least I'm not.

Why work so hard to get to the Senate if you don't use your power to fight for what you believe in? Especially at a time like this.

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 14h

Yum! Now I want some buffalo chicken dip 😍

How do the cash drawings work and why don’t more places do that??

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 20h

So, it seems Trump is doing the same thing with the US Budget as he did with immigration: either his way or the highway.

Call your Senators and tell them not to throw away our healthcare and healthcare subsidies.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 16h

I’d like to start an apolitical campaign called What If Everyone Just Did Their Own Job, What a Wonderful World This Would Be

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve got a new short story up at PETRICHOR, a Pittsburgh arts magazine. This one based on my time as a gallery assistant in a SoHo photography gallery:

OPENING NIGHT AT THE CHIAROSCURO:
petrichorpittsburgh.com/2025/10/13/o...

OPENING NIGHT

by Karen Lillis

petrichorpittsburgh.com

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 16h

My friend said to me sometime after the invasion of LA — "The regime is ready & waiting to co-opt everything for their uses, even our resistance. We must come up with things they don’t easily comprehend. Only free jazz will save us.” I’ve been thinking about it ever since.

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 17h

>>>GOP making deep cuts to YOUR family’s healthcare options, SO that they can subsidize greedy snowflake billionaires

Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 18h

Today is Day 14 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:

1. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House.

2. GOP making deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and ACA.

3. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 17h

"On Monday, the @washingtonpost.com joined the @nytimes.com, @cnn.com , @theatlantic.com, @theguardian.com @reuters.com, @apnews.com, @npr.org , @huffpost.com & trade publication @breakingdefense.com in saying it would NOT sign on to the agreement."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thank you!!!!

GUARDIAN headline: US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 4d

Even without the national guard, law enforcement agencies of the federal government have been using military hardware and tactics on civilian targets.